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Doom

Rip, tear, repeat

id Software's 1993 shooter set the template for the first-person genre. Decades on, Doom still means one marine, a very large arsenal and the whole of Hell on the wrong end of it.

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1993
First game: 1
Series: id Software
Creator

In the frameDoom Eternal

One world. Many eras.

Choose your chapter

The classics. Doom and Doom II set the rules: big guns, mazy levels, no reloading. Final Doom and the moodier Doom 64 pushed the same formula further.

Start with Doom II: Hell on Earth

Your next late night

The essentials

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Doom Eternal

id Software2020

Doom: The Dark Ages

id Software2025

Chapters

Series (1)

Keep moving or dieDoomThe first-person shooter series id Software started in 1993, built on speed, big guns and demons. It has swung from corridor blasting to slow horror and back to full-throttle combat.

A legacy worth revisiting

Hell was never safe from this.

The original packed speed, shotguns and demons into a game modders are still pulling apart. Doom 3 tried slow horror in 2004, then the 2016 reboot brought back the pace. Eternal added platforming and resource juggling, and The Dark Ages went for a heavy medieval stomp.

1993 to 1997
The classics: 2004 to 2005
The horror turn: 2016 onwards
The modern run

Scenes that stay with you